terminates services from Wexford at Wicklow or Greystones in return for more frequent trains on the route, it will be a very good thing.
Carroll says the shortage of trains on the Dublin to Rosslare line, including on the commuter service to Gorey, is a real problem. If trains were to run more frequently up to the Dart line and back, “you could go anywhere”. Barbara Campbell takes the 6.43am commuter train from Gorey to Kilcoole. “I am picked up by a friend who drives me to Bulford, where I work,” she says. “But in the evening, I have to get a bus to Greystones, because the return train doesn’t stop in Kilcoole. That says it all.”
Joanne Slone, who boarded the train in Wexford, says she is “adamantly, vehemently and determinedly in favour” of the plan to switch trains at either Wicklow or Greystones “as long as they give us more trains”. In slight contrast to the morning commuter train from Gorey, the 4.30pm service from Connolly to Rosslare features more people visiting Dublin for leisure or to see family. Such travellers seem more resistant to the idea of changing trains.Paul Byrne, who was visiting family in Dublin, says he thought the plan to transfer passengers was “a bad idea”. He is travelling with his wife, Mary, and says they want the comfort of a seat continuously from A to B.
The former Fine Gael minister says he had only heard opposition to the plans “from aul’ wans, ne’er do wells, those that don’t pay anyway”.